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Definition of Curtilage
1. Noun. The enclosed land around a house or other building. "It was a small house with almost no yard"
Specialized synonyms: Backyard, Dooryard, Front Yard, Garden, Playground, Side Yard
Generic synonyms: Field
Definition of Curtilage
1. n. A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house.
Definition of Curtilage
1. Noun. (legal) the area immediately surrounding a house. Contains either no roof, or areas within the roof to see inside. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Curtilage
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curtilage
Literary usage of Curtilage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"curtilage is the court yard In the front or rear of a house, ... curtilage Is a
piece of ground, either Inclosed or not, that is commonly used with the ..."
2. The Practice of the Law in All Its Departments: With a View of Rights by Joseph Chitty (1833)
"11, 13,) it is enacted that no building, although within the same curtilage with
the dwelling- house, and occupied therewith, shall be deemed to be part of ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"[2] The word curtilage used In the statute was borrowed from English ... So In
Maine, where it was contended that the barn was not within the curtilage, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
""The capital house protects and privileges all Its branches and appurtenances,
if within the curtilage or home stall." 4 Bl. Comm. 225. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Criminal Law as Now Administered in the United States by Emlin McClain (1897)
"... that is, houses appurtenant to the mansion- house but not a parcel of it.8 A
building which has an entrance inside the curtilage, and also one outside, ..."
6. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"By the grant of a curtilage. So, by the grant of a curtilage, the house passes.
2 Rol. 1.1.30. ••• (E 8.) By a grant of pannage. So, by the grant of pannage ..."
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